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I made a thread for Gatecrash spoilers. It is up to date for the most part. There were a few cards the site I was using had the picture for, or the picture was really small and you couldn't read the text.

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Obzedat has some insane Potential imo. He's not any good as a defensive wall, but he messes up Control so badly. The ability to drain 2 life a turn is really powerful if you can stall out enough, it fits with Extort well in any case.

Lazav though, might not have so much playability in Standard, he could be used against Frites, but he's a bit unpredictable. In EDH though, he's da bomb. I've definitely found my UB general now

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"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, today is a gift, that's why it's called the present."

Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.

Obzedat has some insane Potential imo. He's not any good as a defensive wall, but he messes up Control so badly. The ability to drain 2 life a turn is really powerful if you can stall out enough, it fits with Extort well in any case.

Lazav though, might not have so much playability in Standard, he could be used against Frites, but he's a bit unpredictable. In EDH though, he's da bomb. I've definitely found my UB general now

Eight new cards spoiled tonight -- Gideon 2.0, Gruul Keyrune, Skarrg Goliath (launch party card), Zameck Guildmage (a Game Day card), Consuming Abberation (Dimir's prerelease card), Hands of Binding, Nightveil Specter (the buy-a-box card), and Clan Defiance. I think the last of these is probably the best of this group.

In lighter news, I think I'm going to make a casual WU Rebel/Merfolk deck. I'll post the results when I'm done with it. Nope, forgot what Xenograft does. Oops. I might try running a similar concept with Mercenaries.

e: Also this dude was spoiled, and he supposedly has the text "At the beginning of the end step, if you control four or more creatures named ~, you win the game."

And the prerelease promos are indeed the holiday spoiled creatures, along with Consuming Abberation and Furnace Champion in place of the Boros one. So basically four fairly good prerelease promos and one ABSOLUTELY BALLIN' one. Incidentally, isn't that what happened last time, or nearly so?

After seeing some more of the cards and thinking it over, I'm probably going to play Orzhov or Dimir. They seem to fit my playstyle the best plus I love the cards that have been spoiled so far.

Also, they also spoiled Angel Skirmisher:
~Angel Skirmisher

Creature - Angel
Flying
At the beginning of each combat, choose first strike, vigilance or lifelink.
Creatures you control gain the chosen ability until end of turn.
"Beware the Jedi's blade, for it is hot and full of pain!"
-Ponytrooper
Illus. David Rapoza #3/249 4/4

So what do you think of the new Gideon? To me he looks way better than his previous version. His +1 means he'll practically never die, his 0 is what he uses all that loyalty for (swing batta batta swing) and his -15 (wow that's a lot) will be easy to attain and useful when your opponent has ridiculous stuff (assuming they ever get there). He's pretty intense. And he fits in Orzhov colours! Although I wouldn't play him that way.

New Gideon is pretty control-ish. I know everyone was expecting him to be Boros-colored, but I suspected he'd be mono-white. It'd be too much for Gideon, Domri, and Ral Zarek to be Red walkers...that's a lot. And then there'd be 2 red walkers in GTC and in NAYA colors...too much.

He seems pretty good in a control shell. Like...especially with some protection. Unfortunately there's a lot more aggro in the format, so I don't quite know what place he'll have. Pairing him with other Walkers...Jace, Tamiyo, Sorin...seems like a good idea. I think he'll be quite good in Esper.

But I don't know why you'd really want to use his Ultimate unless you're in trouble...and then you'd rather just...I dunno. It seems impractical. Maybe in EDH that'd be decent...not sure. I can't quite see where you'd use it.

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His +1 is fine...I guess. If you're facing a lot of creatures.
His 0 is okay...not quite as good as Old Gideon...maybe about the same because he can get bigger.
His -15 is terrible...there's no way that's ever a good idea. ALL Permanents...exiled...why is that good?

I was really hoping for him to be good...but even in a control shell, you'll probably just rather play Garruk, Sorin, Liliana (dark Realms), or Jace AOT, in the 4-spot.

Unless I'm really missing something.

Also here's some NEWS!!!

Domri Rade is FAKE!!!

Or at least the version of him we've been spoiled has to be...in some part.

The only real use I can find for Gideon's -15 is if you push him past 15 and then use him to beat up on people who can't keep up with your attacker (or use Artful Dodge) -- but that's still a massive waste of time and basically just a stalling tactic.

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, today is a gift, that's why it's called the present."

Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.